Accessing spotify image urls with requests yields 11001 and 10060 errors on valid links

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I am creating a script which can access and set mp3 metadata using the spotipy and music_tag python libraries. One part of this involves accessing album cover artwork through spotify to add to local mp3 files. On some image links, I get either one of these two errors:

URLError(TimeoutError(10060, 'A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond', None, 10060, None)))
URLError(gaierror(11001, 'getaddrinfo failed')))

Here are some examples of links that raise errors, copied from my log output:

\<urlopen error \[WinError 10060\] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond\> \[1759\] - DEVASTATED \_ Joey Bada$$ https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2736a3c1e51a7d2a2a7fbe172a1
\<urlopen error \[WinError 10060\] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond\> \[1760\] - Alright \_ Kendrick Lamar https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273cdb645498cd3d8a2db4d05e1
\<urlopen error \[Errno 11001\] getaddrinfo failed\> \[1955\] - Sierra Leone \_ Frank Ocean https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2737aede4855f6d0d738012e2e5
\<urlopen error \[Errno 11001\] getaddrinfo failed\> \[1956\] - Super Rich Kids \_ Frank Ocean, Earl Sweatshirt https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2737aede4855f6d0d738012e2e5
\<urlopen error \[Errno 11001\] getaddrinfo failed\> \[1957\] - White \_ Frank Ocean, John Mayer https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2737aede4855f6d0d738012e2e5

Interestingly, this only happens for a small fraction of the images, and I am always able to access them through chrome, so the links are valid. I've tried increasing the amount of max_retries as per this post, but still no luck. Here is the function where I get the error:

def set_metadata_musictag(metadata_dict:dict, mp3_fpath:str) -> None:
    
    audio = music_tag.load_file(mp3_fpath)
    audio['year'] = metadata_dict['year_released']
    audio['artist'] = metadata_dict['artist']
    audio['album'] = metadata_dict['album']
    audio['albumartist'] = metadata_dict['album_artist']
    audio['tracknumber'] = metadata_dict['track_number']
    audio['tracktitle'] = metadata_dict['title']

    s = requests.Session()
    retries = Retry(total=4,
                    backoff_factor=0.1,
                    status_forcelist=[ 500, 502, 503, 504 ],
                    raise_on_status=True)
    s.mount('http://', HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retries))

    try:
        img_bytes = s.get(metadata_dict['album_img_url'], timeout=100000).content
        audio['artwork'] = img_bytes
    except:
        print("FAILED to get album cover artwork")

    audio.save()

I'm happy to provide more information as necessary

Accessing spotify image urls with requests yields 11001 and 10060 errors on valid links

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